KOL & news.individual.net

A request for 60 headers for 9 newsgroups took 8 minutes to
download 60 headers for 3 of those groups and 40 headers from the next
group before disconnecting me - and that's typical.

Support response to a query about slow news.individual.net
connections, 'it's slow because it's an overseas connection and you're
on 56k dialup'
- don't you just love the bullshit that comes from isp support.

Anyway, it's safe to say that at this time KOL is a crap service at a
cheapish price. At least it no longer takes 30 attempts to get
connected like it did a week ago but the service is too inconsistent
to recommend to anyone but the most patient or those with lots of
time to wait. Web browsing is slow one minute and normal the next -
file downloads stop before completing more often than not - ftp is
just as bad and news.individual.net had been covered already.

Just in case anyone was wondering.
Rating: 2 out of 10 for the cheap price.

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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:34:35 GMT, (Paora) wrote:
>
>A request for 60 headers for 9 newsgroups took 8 minutes to
>download 60 headers for 3 of those groups and 40 headers from the next
>group before disconnecting me - and that's typical.

I couldn't download any headers using KOL or Paradise and TeraNews
this morning.
>
>Support response to a query about slow news.individual.net
>connections, 'it's slow because it's an overseas connection and you're
>on 56k dialup'
> - don't you just love the bullshit that comes from isp support.
>
>Anyway, it's safe to say that at this time KOL is a crap service at a
>cheapish price. At least it no longer takes 30 attempts to get
>connected like it did a week ago but the service is too inconsistent
>to recommend to anyone but the most patient or those with lots of
>time to wait. Web browsing is slow one minute and normal the next -
>file downloads stop before completing more often than not - ftp is
>just as bad and news.individual.net had been covered already.
>
I can connect with KOL faster than I can with Paradise and I've never
been booted yet. However KOL was really slow last night after 9pm
that I gave up and went back to Paradise. This morning I gave up
using it again as I can't get the groups.
>Just in case anyone was wondering.
>Rating: 2 out of 10 for the cheap price.

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